Month: September 2013

Fri27Sep13 – BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page

First hour: News review with Ron Stone, Labour Councillor for St. George West. Mayor George Ferguson jets off around the world but is he really getting investment for Bristol? Is Matt Payne from KPMG still ‘helping George with the City budget’ and did the City get real ‘Value For Money’ when they bought KPMG’s Bristol HQ? Or is Matt Payne simply a corporate spy inside City Hall with his KPMG finger in the till? Labour leader Ed Miliband pledges 20 month energy price freeze if elected – energy cartels discussed; Vox Pop by Marina Morris on  the bedroom tax, Bristolians are passionate that it is a cruel and immoral tax- members of Bristol’s Bedroom Tax Working Party who recommended that evictions should begin from Council Homes: Gus Hoyt (Grn), Tess Green (Grn), Colin Smith (Lab), Peter Main (LibDem), Gary Hopkins (LibDem), Claire Hiscott (Con) named; George Ferguson says Council should evict “people judged to have too many bedrooms” Bechtel: Exclusive: Conflict row as MoD top brass join contractors: Ex-mandarin now in charge of US giant’s bid to manage his former department. Private sector ‘will hold MoD to ransom’: PCS union warns MPs over proposal to outsource defence procurement. Domestic Extremism or Intelligence Manipulation? Criminal damage and sabotage by apparently Bristol based UK Informal Anarchist Federation (IAF) setting £16m police firing range on fire – other supposed anarchist attacks – are some of these false flag? Martin speaks to Bristol anarchists at the Hydra bookshop. Destruction of railway signalling by IAF potentially endangers innocent members of the public, an attack on public safety. Much of Italy’s far left in 1970s and 1980s was manipulated by NATO and the state. Book: Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan. ‘We want to start a civil war’. Are IAF line managers actually intelligence officers? 70% of the public opposed to the privatisation of the Royal Mail.
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Second hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers. Nairobi Westgate terror attack and is the ‘White Widow’ a ‘Red Herring’?; Syria and Chapter 7 at the United Nations Security Council. British MoD says more use of contractors and drones will make it easier to ‘sell’ wars to the public. 9/11 The New Evidence author & www.Reinvestigate911.org Ian Henshall on latest revelations about the 2001 9/11 attacks; revelation an anti-hijack exercise was running on 9/11. Fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal and the Interview with Sarah Goodley and the child abuse support network based near Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire. www.Birth4Life.co.uk – or ravensarahgoodley@btinternet.com email Sarah here. Arbeit Macht Frei, that’s Nazi language for Work Makes You Free – now where have we heard that before? So say the Tory party as they prepare to force the jobless to work for nothing. More this week on the dirty deals done with the Nazis at the end of World War Two. Specifically Churchill’s personal assistant – MI6 liaison and all round man of Mystery Desmond Morton.Former chief historian at the Foreign Office Gill Bennett, author of ‘Desmond Morton, Churchill’s Man of Mystery’ discusses Morton’s job on the Tripartite Nazi Gold Commission after World War Two. Was he there to cover up his own operation with Martin Bormann to steal the Nazis looted wealth of WW2? 1991 clip of former Labour leader John Smith in the House of Commons on Tory claims that Labour were ‘exaggerating’ when accusing the them of planning to put up VAT.
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime

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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six:  straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: news review with Councillor for Hengrove and deputy leader of the Conservative group on Bristol City Council Mark Weston. Role in Bristol Conservatives of media shy party whip, Royal Coutts & Co banker John Goulandris. Why did Conservatives vote for blacklisting at last week’s full council meeting? They say there is no evidence that local rubbish collection firm Keir have used blacklists but UNISON have provided evidence in relation to health and safety reps being sacked from Keir’s Crossrail project. 19th December Transport Scrutiny Committee will look thoroughly at strategic public transport for Bristol. Chancellor George Osborne’s ‘we are turning the corner’ speech on the economy. Financial system is not fit for purpose but nobody wants to face up to this. Mark McGowan Chunky Mark The Artist Taxi Driver discusses immigration with Labour MP John McDonnell. The brain drain and should we have free immigration. Former Anti-Money laundering Compliance Officer Everett Stern, HSBC Whistleblower on systematic and continuing money laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars at HSBC talks to We Are Change New York at the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Avon & Somerset Chair of the National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO) Ceris Handley, on proposals to privatise the probation service. Royal Mail privatisation Regional Secretary of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Kevin Beazer. Defining moment in 350 years of Royal Mail postal service. 70% of the public against privatisation: 2012-13 Royal Mail made £404m profit so why not keep it public. Universal Service under threat and CWU announce today they are balloting their members over pay and conditions.
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Second hour: Multiple bomb attacks in Iraq, Iranian Press TV are reporting former senior Iraqi security officials who believe the Saudi Arabian monarchy are arming and supporting terrorism in Iraq. 58 dead and 120 wounded last Sunday in Hillah near Baghdad. Total Iraqi dead in 2013 so far 4,000 and 10,000 wounded. Syrian helicopter shot down on the Turkish border but the helicopter came down in Syria. After the Egyptian coup the army conducts mass arrests of democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Iranian born Bristolian Mehrnaz Shahabi gives us her perspective on the recent Syrian Chemical Weapons WMD attack and other Middle East conflicts. John Kerry’s position on Syrian Chemical Weapons attack. Mehrnaz responds with litany of west supplying chemical weapons to Saddam and other regimes in the Middle East. Use of illegal chemical weapons phosphorous bombs and Depleted Uranium. Israelis hold nuclear weapons. Clear signal sent out around the world by British Parliament voting against a missile strike on Syria. Regime change: no independent thought outside Israel and the US allowed. Turning Syria and Iran into client regimes. Washington Navy Yard killing spree this week by former naval reserve serviceman, appears to be an attack on the US Naval Command Centre which has been preparing for missile strikes on Syria. Attack took place within top Washington security zone. Lt. Colonel Edward Loden murdered earlier this month near Nairobi, Kenya was the Officer Commanding 1 Para that shot unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday. Interview with Stephen Knight about his book Jack The Ripper, The Final Solution, published in the 1980s. He examines Masonic ritual and mythical murders and royal connections to the murders which were to poison then kill prostitutes who were blackmailing the royal family over indiscretions of a young Edward VII.
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Link to previous Friday Drivetime shows http://www.bcfmradio.com/category/shows/drivetime/friday-drivetime